One thing you learn very early on in consulting (if you don’t – uh-oh!) is that organizational cultures vary drastically. There are many different dimensions to this. Some organizations are very open and honest – perhaps to a fault – and others tend to keep most things hidden from other groups or people. Regardless of…
Content Types are a fundamental building block in SharePoint. Every object you upload or create in a SharePoint list or library gets a Content Type assigned to it, whether you realize it or not. If you create an item in a list, by default, it gets the Item Content Type. If you upload a file…
In my recent post Using Content Types in SharePoint’s Site Pages Library, I mentioned using interstitial Content Types, but didn’t explain what I meant. Taking advantage of the Content Type hierarchy is an important part of a powerful information architecture, regardless whether you’re working with documents, list items, pages, etc. I’ve talked about this in…
In a modern SharePoint site, we only get one Site Pages library. We can’t create additional libraries which contain aspx pages which act like that special Site Pages library. If we could, we could meet a whole lot of interesting use cases, but it’s not an option. One thing we *can* do is add additional…
In modern SharePoint, we have content management tools which have been honed over decades of SharePoint use. At the same time, our ideas about content management have evolved over that time. People are far more comfortable maintaining content on the Web than they were when SharePoint first was released. Back then, we were often transitioning…
One of my clients who doesn’t have a blog came up with a good fix the other day. Since he didn’t have a place to put it, he offered it to me to post. Have you ever deleted a Content Type from the Content Type Hub which you had previously published – without unpublishing it…
Have I ever mentioned how important Content Types are in SharePoint? Almost everything you work with in SharePoint has a Content Type. If you’re just using Document and Item, you’re really not using the platforms. In this post, I want to talk about Site Content Types and the Location column type. Location Columns Sometime in…
You know that feeling where you’ve done something so many times and it’s worked and then one day it just doesn’t? Yeah, I just had one of those. I’m still a big fan of the PnP Modern Search Web Parts, just like I was last week or last year. To really make them sing in…
Thanks to eagle-eyed reader Markus Bütterhoff’s (@buetti) comment on my post showing how to Group By Content Type in Modern Lists and Libraries, I learned of some recent changes for Content Types in Microsoft (SharePoint) Lists and Document Libraries. I’m not sure when these rolled out, but it must have been in the last few weeks….
I am a huge fan of the Modern Search Web Parts. They are a perfect bridge from classic search to where we all hope Microsoft Search is heading. The team working on these Web Parts is a first class bunch, and they are doing fantastic work. Franck Cornu – @FranckCornu Tarald Gåsbakk – @taraldgasbakk Yannick Reekmans – @yannickreekmans…